Direction indicator



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INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 21 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT? OFFICEDIRECTION INDICATOR Application filed August 4, 1932. Serial No.627,516. g

The object of the invention is to provide a direction indicatorapplicable to all forms of cars and positioned so that it is madeoperative through the rear window of the car; to provide a device of thekind indicated in which the actuating means are positioned adjacent thedrivers seat for ready actuation by him; and to provide a device'whichis of simple form, susceptible of cheap manufacture and of a characterthat will permit its installation without the necessity for experienceor mechanical skill on the part of the party making such installation.

With this object in view, the invention consists in a construction andcombination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is illustrated inthe accompanying drawing but to which embodiment the invention is not tobe restricted. Continued use in practice may dictate certain changes oralterations and the right is claimed to make any which fall within thescope of the annexed claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the interior of a closedcar, showing the invention applied in operative position.

Figure 2 is an exterior View of the rear window of the car, showing themanner in which the device is exposed in operation, the companion signalfor opposite turning being indicated in dotted lines.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail elevational view of one of the signalelements shown in exposed or operative position, the inoperativeposition being indicated in dotted lines.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the actuating means.

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the direction guides.

The invention is of a character to permit its application to anautomobile directly above the rear window 10 and consists of a plate 11to the rear face of which are pivotally connected the links 12, thelinks being connected at their extremities with the plate 11 on a mediallongitudinal line of the latter. The remote ends of the links 12 arepivotally connected to a hanger bar 14 which is secured in the body ofthe car above the rear window in any acceptable manner.

The plate 11 is imprinted or impressed on its front face with an arrowin which appears the word Turn.

Since the invention contemplates signalling for turns in eitherdirection, two of the plates 11 are employed with their suspending meansand are postioned adjacent opposite ends of the window 10, asillustrated in Figure 1. The two plates are identical except that thearrow on the one is reversed with respect to the arrow on the other. e

The links 12 provide free swinging movement of the plates from thehanger bar, so that if unrestrained, they will hang below the upper edgeof the window 10 and be ex- 5,

posed through the glass thereof. The plates may be elevated, however, byapplying a pull laterally, when they are raised above the upper end ofthe window, as illustrated with respect to one of the plates in Figure1.

, The means for effecting raising movement of the plates consists offlexible members 15 of which each is terminally secured to the one inadvance of the other but are identical in form and each consists of abase plate 20 on which is mounted a guide bar 21 with its extremitiesturned laterally and anchored in the base portion. On the guide bar isslid- .ably mounted the sleeve 22 to which the pull cord or flexiblemember 15 is anchored. The sleeve carries a finger engaging loop 23,preferably of triangular form. V

The base plate is secured to the car body and adjacent its forward endis provided. with an abutment member for engagement with the loop 23,the forward face of the abutment member being fiat but the rear facebeing inclined. In the lower or signalling position of the plates 11,the sleeves 22 are at the rear ends of the guide bars 21. In thenonsignalling position, the sleeves are at the forward ends of the guidebars to which they are moved by the operator engaging his 5 fingers withthe loops 23 and forcing the sleeves forwardly, when the loops engagethe inclined faces of the abutment members 24, by which they aredeflected, until they pass beyond the abutment members, when they dropin behind the flat faces thereof. The engagement of the loops 23 againstthe flat faces of the abutment members, holds the signalling plates inthe normal or ino erative position of the latter. To release the signal,therefore, it is only necessary to pull the loop 23 of the selectedsignal laterally, until, it is freed of the abutment, thereafterreleasing the loop, when the gravital tend a, oucy of the plate moves itto signalling posio tion. To raise the plate to the inoperativeoanonsignalling position, movement of the sleeve toward the forward endof the bar 23 is all that is necessary, the abutment member 24automatically effecting the lateral 25 swingingmovement of the loop 23to dispose it behind the abutment.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and usefulis: r I 1. direction indicator comprising a sigso nalling membershiftable into and out of signailing position, a pull member foreffecting such movement, and an actuating member comprising a baseplate, a guide mounted thereon, a member movable longitudinally of-theguide and connected with the pull member and having a laterallyprojecting element, the base plate having an abutment engageable withsaid laterally rojecting ,q element and formed with an inc ined edge itto deflect said element behind said abutment when said member is movedlongitudinally of said ide. Y 2. A irection indicator comprising asignailing member shiftable into and out of sig- 43 nallin position,apull member for effecting such fififting movement, and an actuatingmember comprising a base plate, a guide bar mounted thereon and a sleevemounted on ,1 the ide bar and connected with the pull 5 mom r, thesleeve having a pendent finger piece and the base plate having anabutment dis d adjacent one end of the guide bar an formed with one flatface and an adjapr} cent inclined face for deflecting the finger '65piece laterally to dispose it beside and adjacent the flat face.

In testimony whereof he ailixes his signature. n JOHN E. WAASER, S3.

